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'Member when you used to have to sit through the sounds of what I can only assume a banshee sounds like in order to connect to the world wide web?
'Member when connecting to the internet and being on the phone couldn't happen at the same time?
'Member the Walkman?
'Member when if you wanted to talk to a friend on the phone, you either had to just hope they were home or arrange a specific time to make the call?
'Member when bad meant good and old people were annoyed by it?
'Member?
What else do you 'member?

I remember just having 4 channels on the tv. This was only a few years ago for a large proportion of the UK! Then I remember when Channel 5 came along and everyone was so excited, then quickly disappointed, as it just showed crappy soaps and made for tv movies - and most people outside built-up areas couldn't even get it anyway. THE DARK AGES.

'Member having to bring a big stack of CDs to play on your discman while you were on vacation so you wouldn't have to listen to the same one all the time? They sure took up a lot of space.

I also remember having "just" 16 channels on the tv.

Yes, I'm a youngster.

I 'member that. I had a CD case with a handle on the top. It held like, twenty or so CDs. I 'member being so disgusted by tapes once I was exposed to CDs. It was like a little magical record you didn't have to turn over and scratched even more easily.

I remember having two channels on the tv. The national tv channels.
I remember when the money I put in my piggy bank were all coins.
I remember changing money twice - once in the mid 90s and the second time in 2005, if I remember correctly. One euro was 40,000 lei in 2003, then in 2005 we got the new leu and now an euro is around 4.3/4.4 lei. Before, it didn't mean anything if you were a millionaire. A pair of jeans was 1.5 million lei in the early 2000s.
I remember every new "outside world" thing coming to Romania. Kinder eggs, yoghurt made in other countries, fabric in bright colours, air conditioning...

I, too, 'member when we only had 3 channels. although that's a lie, because we did also have 2 UHF stations and a PBS channel. But those weren't real tv stations.
I still swear, that once or twice a year, the stupid president would come on tv to make some stupid speech right as The Muppet Show was coming on and ruin my life, because then we had 0 tv stations.

I remember just having 4 channels on the tv. This was only a few years ago for a large proportion of the UK! Then I remember when Channel 5 came along and everyone was so excited, then quickly disappointed, as it just showed crappy soaps and made for tv movies - and most people outside built-up areas couldn't even get it anyway. THE DARK AGES

I remember when you could buy sweets for a penny.

Haha this is the same for nz. Now we have about11channels but three of them are "plus one". So the other channels but an hour later. It's so dumb.

I remember when to turn off the telly you had to push a great big button on the big box, and when the screen went of it made a funny crackly electric noise and I liked the tickly feeling of the static on my face and hands.

Haha, my boyfriend was wearing one on our first date. He still wears it now and then.

rosiemoonjumper wrote:

I remember when to turn off the telly you had to push a great big button on the big box, and when the screen went of it made a funny crackly electric noise and I liked the tickly feeling of the static on my face and hands.

I remember when to turn off the telly you had to push a great big button on the big box, and when the screen went of it made a funny crackly electric noise and I liked the tickly feeling of the static on my face and hands.

Oh my god, I remember doing that!

I triple this sentiment. This was probably even better than talking into a fan to get the funny voice.

'Member when gasoline was under a dollar?
'Member when you could buy most of your favorite candy bars for less than a dollar sometimes even a handful?
'Member when it was still somewhat safe to trick or treat around neighborhoods instead of at organized community events?
'Member when everyone was really into rollerblading and it was better than jazzercising? (I don't know about the jazzercising part it just sounded good in my head. )

Right now it's kind of funny, to tell people about how, in the summer, we'd run around the neighborhood all night playing hide and seek, and it's like "Yeah, that is crazy to think about something like that happening today."
But in about 10 or 20 years if I tell people about it, they'll probably gasp! Like we were a bunch of 10 year old Indiana Joneses or something and were out facing certain death every single night.

Anyone 'member R.O.B.?
Robotic operating buddy.
Worked for only one Nintendo title, and the R.O.B. would go through an arbitrary system of events until it spun a top. It was activated by gameplay. It was almost as bad as the power glove. Almost:

I think I had that one too, if the little evel was kinda like those Mego dolls with the outfits, or maybe they just sold an individual doll like that.
The one I'm thinking of, was the cheaper, smaller one that you just put the cord in behind the rear wheel and yanked it out, and he went zipping along the floor.

After about 2 minutes playing with the thing, the wire in the evel kneivel body would poke through his elbow or somewhere and stick me in the hand. Every Time!

I got mad at it once and kept bending it's head back trying to get the wire to poke through it's neck. Take that, you little shit!

Right now it's kind of funny, to tell people about how, in the summer, we'd run around the neighborhood all night playing hide and seek, and it's like "Yeah, that is crazy to think about something like that happening today."
But in about 10 or 20 years if I tell people about it, they'll probably gasp! Like we were a bunch of 10 year old Indiana Joneses or something and were out facing certain death every single night.

I always think about that. People's response to when I say that kids should get out more and play outside they respond with how there are a bunch of psychos out there in the world.

There have always been psychos!!! Not to mention that if anything is going to happen to your child it's most likely gonna be by someone that's already in the family or a family friend. I get it though. It is a different world out there but I feel like we're not equipping our children to be able to defend themselves.

Anyway!

Member when pogs were cool but tamagotchis were even cooler.

What about the skip it? I used to dominate.

Member when MTV used to be all about the music!!!!???

Member when you look forward to Saturday morning cartoons?

Member when you would go out with family and friends and actually having to converse with one another without checking your cell phone?

Member when portable film cameras were the way to capture stupid memories with friends and family and you had to wind up the film and flip a button for a flash?

I was flipping through the channels this morning and thinking no wonder we're forcing kids to grow up so fast. Instead of cartoons on Saturday morning, they're getting inundated with the CBS morning news from about 5 am til noon.

Just think, pretty soon landline phones are going to go the way of the dial up internet connection, so you can dig out the old computer and dial up to the internet without having to worry about phone calls.

Just think, pretty soon landline phones are going to go the way of the dial up internet connection, so you can dig out the old computer and dial up to the internet without having to worry about phone calls.

like land line phones are becoming obsolete so it's a great idea to take out another obsolete form of communication now, since there won't be a problem with the land line phone interupting you anymore.

take out or take up? I literally just had the conversation of how no one really has a land line anymore and that's why cell phone providers/carriers charge city tax. For some reason I don't like that we don't have a land line...probably because a land line saved my life one time.

'member when it was all the rage to say WAAAZZZZZZZUUUUUPPP! while making a stupid face?

'member when everyone loved the spice girls even the boys thought they were sooo hot.

Look. It was a lame joke, can't we move along. There's no need to keep staring at the car crash.

The only good thing I can say about the 49ers is the story of how when they were starting that winning drive in Superbowl XXIII, as they huddled up and everyone is all nervous and excited and focused, Joe Montana looks around and goes "Hey! Look! That's John Candy in the front row!"
That is like a F'n BOSS!

'Member when camcorders were the size of Jeeps?
'Member the rewind button?
'Member when people paid five grand for a 40 inch plasma screen TV only to realize that three months later there was going to be an image permanently burned into the screen?

What if him being alive was the hoax and he was really the R&D for the CGI of Jurassic Park. That if they could create a human-looking thing and get us to care about it, then they could move on to dinosaurs.

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